The socio-spatial embeddedness of Roman law - FRANCESCO DE ANGELIS (ed.), SPACES OF JUSTICE IN THE ROMAN WORLD (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition volume 35; Leiden 2010). Pp. xiii + 434, figs. 22. ISSN 0166-1302; ISBN 978 90 04 18925 6. $199.

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 565-574
Author(s):  
Carlos F. Noreña
Keyword(s):  
Classical Tradition ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Roman World

On Slaves and Other Things

2018 ◽  
pp. 40-75
Author(s):  
Laura Salah Nasrallah
Keyword(s):  
Law And Literature ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Slave Traders ◽  
The City

This chapter argues that the letters of Paul are thoroughly infused with the slave-trading mentalities of the Roman world. Greek and Roman law and literature present the enslaved person as being both person and thing. Onesimus, a slave passed between Paul and Philemon, appears as such a person and thing in Paul’s letter to Philemon. Ephesos was a likely location of the household of Philemon. Within the city, we find evidence of slaves, slave traders, and the regulation of the lives of the enslaved. Additional evidence from Corinth and Delphi indicates the complex lives even of manumitted slaves, who retained ties to their former masters. The chapter concludes by arguing that those who first received the letters of Paul and their language of slavery and discussion of slave status would have been provoked to consider their own legal and social situations and the possibility of being slave, free, or in between.

The Legal Policy and Reforms of Hadrian

1934 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fritz Pringsheim
Keyword(s):  
Small Towns ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
The South ◽  
Legal Policy ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Roman Culture ◽  
Frontier Region ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Roman Administration

The reign of Hadrian marks the beginning of a new epoch in Roman administration and in the history of Roman Law. Hadrian's visit to Britain is immortalised by the Wall which he built from Tyne to Solway. Its construction is characteristic of the Emperor's willingness to renounce further conquests and even to abandon land which had been Roman. The Wall marked the limit of the districts which he was prepared to retain and administer. It followed, not the shortest and easiest route, but a line beyond the fortified area whence a look-out could be kept over the barbarians outside, and its object was the completion and definition of the fortified frontier region whereby it became easier to civilise and to pacify the country which lay to the south. Hadrian's aim was to bring order and peace to the land bounded by the new frontiers of the Roman world. Thus Hadrian may be sharply contrasted with his predecessor Trajan, the soldier on the throne, who owed his elevation to his successful wars in the Rhine region, and who as Emperor extended the frontiers of the Empire on the lower Danube and in the East. On Hadrian's accession the Empire was more powerful than ever before or afterwards, but its financial and military resources were strained to the utmost, and indeed frequently had been overstrained. The small peasant owners and small towns, sources of Roman culture and prosperity, had begun to suffer and disappear.

Manumission, Citizenship, and Acculturation in the Roman World

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Perry
Keyword(s):  
Community Building ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Roman Society ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Specific Factors ◽  
Freed Slaves ◽  
Civic Community

This chapter examines the manumission and acculturation of freedpersons in the Roman world, especially through the lens of citizenship and community building. It analyses how the long-standing practice of granting citizenship to freed slaves shaped the institution of manumission in general as well as the specific factors contributing to the decision to manumit individual slaves. Finally, it examines the means by which freed slaves were incorporated in the civic community. While Roman law marked freedpersons as a lesser category of citizens, denying them access to the highest echelons of Roman society, it still accorded them important rights and abilities that made them more similar to fellow citizens than distinct.

Torture: Flesh, Truth, and the Fourth Gospel

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Glancy
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Bodies ◽  
The Body ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Fourth Gospel ◽  
John 1 ◽  
Passion Narrative ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Do So

AbstractIn the Roman world, torture, conceived as a mechanism to extract truth from flesh, was used in judicial interrogation, most commonly in interrogation of slaves and other low-status persons. The flogging of Jesus in John 19:1-3, a flogging that occurs in the midst of the trial before Pilate, is best read as an instance of such judicial torture. If understood as an act of judicial torture, the flogging is also an act of witnessing to the truth: the flesh of the Johannine Jesus is flush with truth (John 1:14). And because Jesus' flesh is flush with truth, the Johannine passion narrative is an account of torture, torture as defined in Roman law: "By torture we mean the infliction of anguish and agony on the body to elicit the truth" (Dig. 48.10.15.41). As I trace the lineaments of truth in Jesus' corpus, I ask how the Fourth Gospel implicates the project of torture. Confronted by the horror of a U.S. policy of distilling truth from foreign bodies, I ask this question urgently. Is it possible to embrace flesh as a locus of truth and still to condemn the practice of torture? Through my carnal reading of the Johannine passion narrative, I attempt to do so.

scholarly journals PETRARCA GHIBELLINO? ROMA E L’IMPERO NEI RERUM FAMILIARIUM LIBRI

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Conetti
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Classical Tradition ◽  
Holy Roman Empire ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Italian Politics ◽  
Henry Vii ◽  
Political Thinker ◽  
Instrumental Role

A few, but very meaningful pieces from Petrarch’s Familiari deal with the Holy Roman Empire and its institutions, especially because of the role they played in italian politics. Although Petrarch is not a systematic political thinker, the imperial idea of Rome plays a pivotal role. It seems possible to demonstrare that Petrarch has been influenced by official documents by Henry VII, eventually Manfred of Suabia, and mostly by civil lawyers and the sources of Roman law. These last item belongs to Petrarch’s commitment towards a recovery for his present days of Roman classical heritage. All this said, political issues still play only an instrumental role, connected with the immediate needs of those powers, the Visconti household first and most but also emperor Charles IV himself, Petrarch was intimately connected to. Though Petrarch sincerely advocates Roman classical tradition, he is a ghibellino only for a matter of opportunity, or rather of the opportunity of those powers he decided to serve, and their immediate political needs.

Rome and the Economics of Ancient Law I

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Parsons Miller
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Ancient Economy ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Economic Methods ◽  
Ancient Law ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter serves as an introduction to the essays in this collection by exploring the ways in which contemporary economic theory can be used to ask new questions about the law and economies of ancient societies. The chapter begins with a review of the importance of Roman law as an academic discipline to legal historians. It then introduces the overall theme of the collection by reviewing the ways in which historians of the ancient economy and of ancient law have made use of economic theory to understand better the relationship between law and the economy in the Roman world. The chapter then goes on to discuss the individual chapters in this volume. It focuses in particular on the ways in which economic theory informs the approaches that the authors, both legal and economic historians, take in their essays. The chapter will thus set the individual chapters in a broader scholarly perspective and will seek to explain why economic methods are a fruitful way to understand Roman Law and Roman economic history.

scholarly journals PETRARCA GHIBELLINO? ROMA E L’IMPERO NEI RERUM FAMILIARIUM LIBRI

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Conetti
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Classical Tradition ◽  
Holy Roman Empire ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Italian Politics ◽  
Henry Vii ◽  
Political Thinker ◽  
Instrumental Role

A few, but very meaningful pieces from Petrarch’s Familiari deal with the Holy Roman Empire and its institutions, especially because of the role they played in italian politics. Although Petrarch is not a systematic political thinker, the imperial idea of Rome plays a pivotal role. It seems possible to demonstrare that Petrarch has been influenced by official documents by Henry VII, eventually Manfred of Suabia, and mostly by civil lawyers and the sources of Roman law. These last item belongs to Petrarch’s commitment towards a recovery for his present days of Roman classical heritage. All this said, political issues still play only an instrumental role, connected with the immediate needs of those powers, the Visconti household first and most but also emperor Charles IV himself, Petrarch was intimately connected to. Though Petrarch sincerely advocates Roman classical tradition, he is a ghibellino only for a matter of opportunity, or rather of the opportunity of those powers he decided to serve, and their immediate political needs.

scholarly journals Roma en la poesía de Ida Vitale: lengua, literatura y civilización

Nova Tellus ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-176
Author(s):  
Josefa Fernández Zambudio
Keyword(s):  
Classical Tradition ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Roman Literature ◽  
Latin Language ◽  
Accurate Expression

In this paper we focus on significant examples of the dialogue between the uruguayan poet Ida Vitale and the Roman World. We explore her reception of Rome through Latin Language and Roman Literature, Religion, Society, History and Archaeology. These elements are linked to the search of an accurate expression. The lack of studies on Ida Vitale, especially on Classical tradition, and the contextualization in her Poetics justify our contribution itself.

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